At some point late Saturday night, the light towers over Death Valley will dim, the taillights on the vehicles will recede in the distance and the home portion of the 2018 football season will end.
It seems like yesterday – and that’s not just hyperbole – that we were standing on the grass at Jervey Meadows following a Clemson practice in August, with head coach Dabo Swinney giving us a tour of the cooling trailers. The day was hot and muggy, a rain shower had passed over an hour earlier and the season opener against Furman was merely a distant thought.